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In online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) is a vital marketing strategy that helps businesses gain better search visibility for their brand, products, or services. Proof of SEO’s importance is Google now processing at least 2 trillion searches per year from 2012’s 1.2 trillion. A recent Nielsen survey also found that most shoppers research online before making a purchase, i.e., look up product information, compare prices, or click ads to find out more.

SEO is a technical field that heavily relies on data mined from a myriad of sources. But manually gathering data for crunching and analysis isn’t the best use of your team’s time, and hence the need for SEO tools to lighten the load for marketers.

One such SEO software is WebCEO, which carries a comprehensive suite of SEO tools that both beginner and expert SEOs can use to boost their sites’ online rankings. Tools included are keyword research, internal links optimization, backlink quality check, toxic links identification and removal, among many others. WebCEO is both a desktop and web service, and this review will focus on the web version.

Setup and Implementation

Because WebCEO resides in the cloud, there’s no software download and installation necessary. All you need is sign up for an account and you’re ready to analyze and optimize the SEO health of your websites – anytime, anywhere. To test drive the application, sign up for a free account to see if it fits your needs.

WebCEO Dashboard

When you log in to WebCEO, the dashboard shows you a snapshot of your current projects, and depending on the widgets you’ve chosen at setup (which you can also edit as you go), you get a high-level view of the SEO status of your websites.

For example:

Did your sites’ rankings or total backlinks go up or down since they were last scanned?

How many broken links need fixing?

How many people visited the website last week?

How many likes, shares, and comments have your Facebook and Google+ pages garnered over time?

For a more granular look into the data, click on the site’s name. From the drop-down menu to the right of the site’s name, select the appropriate SEO tool to, say, assess a keyword’s efficiency index or spy on a competitor’s keywords or backlink profile.

Should you need to add another website to analyze and optimize, click on the Add Project button, and the widgets you choose can be arranged any way you want, with the data filtered according to what you only need shown.

The dashboard is also where you tweak your account’s settings, upload a logo for interface and report branding, enable the WebCEO API access if you need WebCEO data streamed to an in-house or third-party application, check your billing profile and history, configure the interface’s language settings, activate the white-label domain service, and more.

The Reports menu on the right-hand side of the dashboard lets you manage consolidated PDF and CSV reports, create email alerts, and design your branded reports’ layout. The Users menu, which is to the right of the Reports menu, allows you to create groups, add users, configure user roles, and create project scan limits for certain user profiles to save on scanning costs.

Agency Tools

White-Label Domain

For agencies offering SEO services, WebCEO functions as a one-stop shop for all your clients’ SEO needs. Aside from consolidated SEO reports that you can brand accordingly, WebCEO offers a white-label platform that gives your teams and clients access to a custom domain or subdomain that hosts their web-based SEO tools.

If you’re a SaaS company seeking to avoid the added costs of developing your own SEO tools, this feature lets you provide a self-service SEO portal to your clients as a value-added service.

Sales Lead Generation

Another agency feature worth noting is the customizable SEO audit button that you can place anywhere on your site. Visitors can then click on the button to request a free audit report. Use this as an opportunity to gather their contact information, offer your services, and turn them into paying customers. The SEO reports are personalized with your brand colors and logo, without any mention of WebCEO.

SEO Tools

If just one word is allowed to describe WebCEO, that would be “versatility.” Its built-in SEO tools cover a gamut of uses – from keyword analysis to competitor research, from on-page optimization to devising a backlink strategy, from social buzz monitoring to technical site audits. Once you find your way around it, you get good value for your money.

WebCEO’s tools fall under four buckets: Site Audit, Link Building, Social Metrics, and Marketing Analytics.

Site Audit

When it comes to search engine marketing, keywords will never go out of style – at least not in the foreseeable future – regardless of the many different ways the search engines tweak their algorithms.

WebCEO shows you your competitor’s keywords, provides suggestions on which keywords to use for better rankings, lets you create local search parameters to track how your keywords rank in a particular geographic region, and you can perform technical website audits, such as for broken links, URL errors, server issues, page access issues, and so on. It also presents error trends in graphical format so you know, even at a glance, what’s happening over time.

Included in the Site Audit category are keyword research, internal links optimization, technical audit, SEO analysis, and sitemap generation.

Link Building

Quality backlinks improve a site’s search visibility, and WebCEO sees to it that all links pointing back to your site do not harm its integrity. The Backlink Quality Checker lets you weed out toxic links and report them to Google in a few clicks. The Backlink Competitor Spy lets you check your competitors’ backlinks and sort them according to trust flow, allowing you to then perform needed actions to ensure you have links coming from trusted pages on the internet.

For the Link Building category, tools you get conduct backlink quality checks, competitor backlink intelligence, monitoring of specific links, and content submission.

Social Metrics

While distinct in their uses and objectives, social media and SEO work well together. They form the pillars of an effective online marketing strategy. WebCEO, through its web buzz monitoring tool, lists all the blogs and online publications that talk about the keywords you’re looking for, which is the first step in finding people and partners who could write about your product or service.

It also has a Twitter buzz monitoring feature that shows you all the Twitter profiles mentioning the keywords that matter to you. Depending on how relevant they are to your industry or purpose, it helps you identify the people and entities to follow and engage with, the tweets to retweet to your audience, and so on.

The Social Metrics category includes web buzz monitoring, social engagement, and Facebook insights.

Marketing Analytics

WebCEO’s rank tracking functionality lets you monitor how your keywords rank on selected search engines and locales and devices, how your site fares against competitors, and if your ranking positions are improving compared to previous scans.

The web analytics feature pulls your site’s data from Google Analytics (you’ll have to authorize WebCEO to enable this), as well as competitor traffic ranking from Alexa and compete.com. The competitor metrics tool provides a graphical overview of your site’s position versus competitors in terms of total backlinks, average ranking, and traffic.

Who Should Use WebCEO

WebCEO is a tool that works for businesses of various sizes in a variety of industries. It’s perfect for freelancers, SEO agencies, in-house SEO teams, and software startups.

Why WebCEO

Aside from the software being readily accessible in the cloud, WebCEO carries all the SEO tools agencies need to provide top-notch SEO services to their customers. Its tiered subscription scheme allows freelancers and startups to begin with the most cost-effective option, then scale up as their business grows. A forever free account with limited features is likewise available.

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Being a marketer manager what could help me the most? Of course SEO, which would increase my website rankings and bring me some targeted audience. I couldn't rely upon every software, but I found the SEO PowerSuite the most capable. I have no longer to do it manually when SEO PowerSuite could do it for me more comfortably. It does the job so quick which a person manually would have taken nearly weeks. Saved me months. Despite its automatic capabilities it helped me through SEO, it seemed to me like a personal guide. Guided me about how to boost traffic, for my better mean. It is the strongest among others especially in the keyword search and optimization tools. Its main feature includes Rank Tracker, Rank Tracker is an effective tool for seeing where your website ranks for your keywords. It’s easy to use, and the data is accurate with the right configuration. It allows us to schedule our rankings to be checked according to specific intervals. It can track universal results, the results are displayed in various ways, very clear results, with comparisons of results with previous ones, keywords are suggested. Makes professional reports with a variety of templates, these reports could easily be exported with a click. Website Auditor didn't use it much SEO SpyGlass, I used this tool to pull in backlinks from my own website I could manually check the links and ask webmaster to remove any dodgy links and add those links to Google’s disavow tool. LinkAssistant: with link assistant I can check all the link building opportunities, complete details about them, it verifies status checking if someone linked back to me, anchor variation options. I found all of the features very helpful. Really glad I came across it.

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Abhik Biswas , Itsabhikdotcom

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I am not going to use this software, not because the SEO PoweSuite is overpriced at $249, but for its features. Everything can be done either manually or by using free tools. However, that is just me. If you don’t have time or just want to make life easier by automate the whole process, then you can give it a try. This Link Assistant SEO PowerSuite review is not intended to discourage buying of the tool, rather tells you what to expect when you buy it.

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